Being able to take your favorite videos with you wherever you go is great, but …

ezVision Video iWear

The ezVision Video iWear package comes with the viewer "goggles," charger, two nose pieces, battery/controller, cable, and composite adapter. Unlike the myvu, the iWear is not iPod-only and supports any video output device that can connect to a 3.5mm audio/video jack or composite inputs.

Like the myvu, the viewer comes with two TFT LCD displays—one for each eye—built in.

It's slightly bulkier than the myvu and silver. Much more Star Trek-like, if you ask me.

Actually, I think you can only get less sexy

The iWear's viewer provides a much more immersive viewing experience than the myvu, but it is not completely immersive by any means. The user can still see above or below the viewing area with little effort, but it's certainly a lot less distracting than the myvu. The iWear's "screen" is also much bigger than the myvu's, as mentioned previously. I'm not sure if I would personally describe it as watching a 50" TV from an 8.5" distance, but it's definitely got a larger viewing area.

Like the myvu, colors on the iWear leave something to be desired, and things look whitish and washed out most of the time. The video quality on the iWear can be iffy at times, too. Jiggling the connector in the 3.5mm jack can produce variable video quality results on the "screen." If the plug is all the way in, and the user isn't moving a lot, the video quality is "good"—as good as it can get in the viewer's 320x240 output, anyway—but even a slight repositioning of the iPod or the iWear's controller could cause the connector to shift and cause static. This is annoying.

The iWear's controller can be turned on and off and can control the volume of the headset's audio output... and that's about it. Unlike the myvu's built-in controller, it does not adjust the brightness of the output—what you see is what you get. And again, because the iWear connects to the iPod (or any other audio/video device) through the 3.5mm jack instead of the iPod's built-in connector, it is dependent upon its own battery to run the viewer. That means that you, as the viewer, could potentially have two points of battery failure while watching a TV show or a movie: the storage device and the viewer itself. There is an included AC adapter in the package, which can be used while viewing video or just to charge the viewer's battery in its downtime. The iPod is on its own, though.

If the colors of the video output leave something to be desired, the audio quality of the built-in headphones on the iWear definitely sucks. There's no way around it. The earbuds are attached to the viewer and can't be switched out for something better, and they provide a very empty, tin can-like sound for pretty much everything. It's tolerable and somewhat easy to ignore if you're not an audio freak, but in comparison to the myvu's offerings—or even Apple's default earbuds that come with the iPod—the audio quality is just plain poor.

One definite positive about the iWear's setup is that it is usable by people who wear glasses, without any add-ons. This is especially unexpected, given the fact that the iWear's viewer provides a more immersive viewing experience than the myvu, but the way it's structured to sit on the user's ears and nose makes it not only possible to wear glasses, but comfortable. This "feature" is very welcome after my glasses disappointment from the myvu.